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it's a form of religion. i really believe that. in which you don't have to, you don't have any morality, you just have places to go to worship. [laughter] >> by the way, we're going to -- i'm going to ask one more question, and then we're going to open it up to all of you who i'm sure have lots of questions for tom. finally, tom, after "bonfire of the vanities" you got into a few tiffs with other authors about what real writing is. you guys were particularly nastiest with mailer, updike and irving, referring to that -- if i remember correctly -- as the three stooges. were you just trying to start a fight just to be provocative? there seemed to be a choosing up of sides, and many along the 43rd street corridor at the time new york magazine often cited the scene with mailer and company. do you think this fight has had a negative impact on reviewers of your book? in other words, do you think they use each new book as a chance to get even? >> in a word, yes. [laughter] i couldn't resist. everyone always said never answer a review, it's
it's a form of religion. i really believe that. in which you don't have to, you don't have any morality, you just have places to go to worship. [laughter] >> by the way, we're going to -- i'm going to ask one more question, and then we're going to open it up to all of you who i'm sure have lots of questions for tom. finally, tom, after "bonfire of the vanities" you got into a few tiffs with other authors about what real writing is. you guys were particularly nastiest with...
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religion's complicated, and his religious story is complicated too. not because of just catholicism and mormonism, but also because he had joined a protestant/evangelical church that his wife and her family participated in. so he's dabbled with a lot of religious practices. >> host: does he attend church today, and if so, where? >> guest: he says that when he's in washington, he attends catholic mass every single day when he can. >> host: do you know which? ing the yeah, there's a catholic church just a few steps away from his office on capitol hill. it's very easy to get to for him. but when he's here in miami, he lives in west miami, a suburb of miami proper. he attends another church called christ fellowship, and that is an evangelical/protestant-based faith which is a part of the southern baptist convention. >> host: is it a megachurch? >> guest: it's a big church, somewhere around 50,000 people attending it and several of its satellite churches in the area. >> host: gloria right here in miami. hi, gloria. gloria, you with us? we will try to come
religion's complicated, and his religious story is complicated too. not because of just catholicism and mormonism, but also because he had joined a protestant/evangelical church that his wife and her family participated in. so he's dabbled with a lot of religious practices. >> host: does he attend church today, and if so, where? >> guest: he says that when he's in washington, he attends catholic mass every single day when he can. >> host: do you know which? ing the yeah,...
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so much good comes out of religion and so much that can. we all know that. i think it's amazing how much we can agree. i felt like i did not want to put out their something that people could disagree on. no politics. it was never to be about that. it was to be about what we can all agree on. i think there are some things that are unarguable. whether it's picking your english teacher or your mother, those of the safe bets, but picking people like rosa parks, people who we know and see with that historical record, things that i found universally, every politics, religion, we can all agree, and that's why wanted to be about. >> host: that is the last word. here again is the cover up brad melchers most recent nonfiction. his next thriller comes out in january. thank you for joining us here in miami. >> guest: great to see you. >> host: well, we have one more panel we want to show you, and they're just being introduced a pinch happen all where we have been carrying all the lives of the panel's. coming up, this is a panel on the christopher hitchens post-mortem bo
so much good comes out of religion and so much that can. we all know that. i think it's amazing how much we can agree. i felt like i did not want to put out their something that people could disagree on. no politics. it was never to be about that. it was to be about what we can all agree on. i think there are some things that are unarguable. whether it's picking your english teacher or your mother, those of the safe bets, but picking people like rosa parks, people who we know and see with that...
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i have real clear religion of private colleges, but answer this question a lot. the first amendment applies to public colleges. it doesn't apply to private colleges. there's something called the leonard law that applies first amendment standards to california universities. private universities are bound by their own promise. so yell at harvard, the best schools in the country's promise freedom of speech in glowing language. for some forceful contracts in the states, particularly massachusetts and new york, by the way. but it's not just a legal enforceability, it is their moral power. believe me, i know this from experience, columbia, harvard, yale do not like being called out when they violate their own freedom of speech. american has been more shoulder sharkey about it. that's why did this to step up the argument. it is a harder road, but you hold them against their own values and his people within the university who know those codes are wrong. but it is a harder fight and definitely stay on the fire to help you fight. >> i'm also in american university. you've
i have real clear religion of private colleges, but answer this question a lot. the first amendment applies to public colleges. it doesn't apply to private colleges. there's something called the leonard law that applies first amendment standards to california universities. private universities are bound by their own promise. so yell at harvard, the best schools in the country's promise freedom of speech in glowing language. for some forceful contracts in the states, particularly massachusetts...
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their religion even disclose. it reminds me a lot of the diagram of the head with a million sperm around it. anyway, it's like the dolphins, to be honest. anyway, the other thing that you learn watching these games is a lot of parents can be idiots. and so what got us going on this idea of this book a mother and a text, you have a guy covering a little girls soccer game and then another guy who's a parent who objected to a call the referee had made. they get into an argument. the kids don't care, but the parents cared deeply. they don't ever want to see each other again. they don't like each other. they keep running into each other during the course of that afternoon fate conspires to bring them together over and over again. within about 12 hours of their first meeting they have a series of events that are perfectly plausible, accidentally hijacked a clothing optional cruise ship, as so often happens in youth soccer. not an entirely realistic plot. the way we rode it was allen would write a chapter in send it to m
their religion even disclose. it reminds me a lot of the diagram of the head with a million sperm around it. anyway, it's like the dolphins, to be honest. anyway, the other thing that you learn watching these games is a lot of parents can be idiots. and so what got us going on this idea of this book a mother and a text, you have a guy covering a little girls soccer game and then another guy who's a parent who objected to a call the referee had made. they get into an argument. the kids don't...